Author Tom Wolfe sympathizes with Bush

NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Author Tom Wolfe says after researching his novel featuring rampant sex on college campuses he feels for U.S. President Bush's conservative stance.

"I have sympathy with what George Bush is trying to do ...," Wolfe told Monday's Guardian.

Wolfe, whose novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons," will be released next week, said Tuesday's presidential vote centers on morality like never before, with Bush representing conservative values.

"I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East Coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non-morality. That is constantly done, and there is real resentment," Wolfe said.

Wolfe spent four years researching his book about a young woman who conquers her fear of the sexual antics on a college campus to become a star of the escapades.